To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Thomas Hobbes

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[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

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But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

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The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

truth math knowledge

The reputation of power IS power. by Thomas Hobbes

The reputation of power IS power.

reputation political power

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

covenant void men

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

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Corporations are "worms in the body politic" by Thomas Hobbes

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world. by Thomas Hobbes

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

holes atheism world

Words are the money of fools by Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyo... by Thomas Hobbes

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called lau... by Thomas Hobbes

Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. by Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitatio... by Thomas Hobbes

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

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